How is this shocking to anybody but the Suits? Ask almost anyone who works in retail whether they care about "shrinkage" of stock - if the corporation is basically regarded as a necessary enemy to whom one must swallow one's pride and suck up to in order to survive, of course they're going to shank the corporation in the back at the first opportunity. And tightening your controls over the survivors isn't going to make them want to do that any less... quite the opposite.

If your insiders regard you as a bigger enemy than they regard your competitors, you have a problem. Perhaps you shouldn't be taking Dilbert cartoons as some sort of instruction manual?